Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: MANT [GEN]
Uttar Pradesh will go to Assembly elections early in 2017. The state has an Assembly comprising 403 seats and a party/alliance has to win 202 seats to form the government. In 2012, when the last state election was held in UP, the Samajwadi Party had won 224 seats to get a decisive majority.
Oneindia will take one Assembly constituency a day and have a look at electoral information related to it:
Constituency
Name:
MANT
[Comprises
PCs
4-Falain-II,
8-Jatawari,
18-Barha,
19-Husaini,
22-Rampur
of
Paigaon
KC,
PCs
11-Ujhani,
12-Shergarh,
13-Peerpur,
14-Dhimri,
15-Ranhera,
16-Senwa,
17-Astadi
&
21-Gulalpur
of
4-Chhata
KC
of
1-Chhata
Tehsil;
KCs
1-Nauhjhil,
2-Surir,
3-Akabarpur,
4-Mant
&
Bajana
NP
of
2-Mant
Tehsil]
Constituency No. 82
- District: Mathura (Mant is an Assembly segment under Mathura Lok Sabha constituency)
- District Area: 3,340 square kilometres
- District population: 25,47,184 (general caste 80%, Scheduled Caste 19.1%, Sceduled Tribe 0.1%)
- District literacy: 59.2%
- District urbanisation: 29.7%
2012 Assembly election result in Mant
- Winner: Jayant Chaudhary (RLD)/PT Shyam Sunder Pacchara of the Trinamool Congress won the seat in a 2012 bypoll after Jayant Chaudhary resigned after winning the election. He defeated Yogesh Chaudhary by 6,604 votes.
- Votes received: 87,062
- Vote percentage: 43.11
- Nearest rival: Pt SSS Pachhara (Trinamool Congress)
- Votes: 71,007
- Percentage: 35.16
- Difference: 16,055
- Margin %: 7.95
- Total voters: 2,86,964
- Turnout: 70.61
- Party which won Mant most number of times: Mant constituency came into existence after the delimitation of 2008 [RLD won in 2012; TMC won in 2012 bypoll]
2014 Lok Sabha result in Mathura
Hema Malini (BJP) defeated Jayant Chaudhary (RLD) by 3,30,743 votes (margin% 31.67)